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Our Cars

Why Bright Colors?

Black cars may look better in the shade, but on a dreary day in the Pacific Northwest – and we have many of them, I’ll take the M&M colors anytime. But then, I’ve always loved bright, saturated colors.   Back when I earned my living as an artist, a woman […]

Drives

The Alfa Romeo 916

La, la, la means I love you   Look at that front end. Those cool headlights, and the signature Alfa grille. Is it black or is it blue? The owner swears it’s black metallic, but when the light hits it just right, a subtle tinge of blue comes shining through. […]

Drives

Full circle with the 944

Looking over the hood of my Alpine White 944 at a brisk, but leisurely pace on the morning’s coffee run brings back great memories. The 944 is by far the slowest car in my collection of five Porsches, yet it is the most tactile, most mechanical, and most engaging in […]

Stories

Old Guy in the Neighborhood – Part 3

I remember the line from the Thin Lizzy song, “told them you were livin’ downtown, driving all the old men crazy.” Oddly, just after my neighbor Amos passed at 94 years old, another old guy down the street popped up and it wasn’t me. And this one didn’t like cars, […]

Drives

Morning Topless Motoring

Quietly driving through the farmland, not too far from Habit HQ, with Gumby’s (the Laguna Green E30 project) top down at a leisurely pace is incredibly relaxing. Maybe every E30 doesn’t need an engine swap, or even a manual transmission. Heresy, I know, but there’s something to be said for […]

Our Cars

Nose Job

When the new BMWs with their monstrous grilles hit the scene a while back, many of the BMW faithful lost their shit over the new design language. A proliferation of memes hinting that soon the grille would be bigger than the car itself hit the internet. Oh the horror. If […]